The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 8Longmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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Page 13
... effect distress produces , even on people more intelligent than the great body of the labouring classes can possibly ... effects , those effects which it would produce on the Americans , or on any other people , that it blinds their ...
... effect distress produces , even on people more intelligent than the great body of the labouring classes can possibly ... effects , those effects which it would produce on the Americans , or on any other people , that it blinds their ...
Page 18
... effect of seditious works which have lately been published . If this feeling be of origin so recent , I have read history to little purpose . Sir , this alarming discontent is not the growth of a day or of a year . If there be any ...
... effect of seditious works which have lately been published . If this feeling be of origin so recent , I have read history to little purpose . Sir , this alarming discontent is not the growth of a day or of a year . If there be any ...
Page 37
... effect . Re- collect , he said , how the French aristocracy surrendered their privileges in 1789 , and how that surrender was requited . Recollect that Day of Sacrifices which was afterwards called the Day of Dupes . Sir , that day was ...
... effect . Re- collect , he said , how the French aristocracy surrendered their privileges in 1789 , and how that surrender was requited . Recollect that Day of Sacrifices which was afterwards called the Day of Dupes . Sir , that day was ...
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... man knows , that the excitement which the late French revolution produced in England was not the cause but the effect of that progress Sometimes which liberal opinions had made amongst us . they 46 PARLIAMENTARY REFORM .
... man knows , that the excitement which the late French revolution produced in England was not the cause but the effect of that progress Sometimes which liberal opinions had made amongst us . they 46 PARLIAMENTARY REFORM .
Page 57
... effect did it produce ? Exactly as much as that old Act of Queen Elizabeth , still unrepealed , by which it is provided that every man who , without a special exemption , shall eat meat on Fridays and Saturdays , shall pay a fine of ...
... effect did it produce ? Exactly as much as that old Act of Queen Elizabeth , still unrepealed , by which it is provided that every man who , without a special exemption , shall eat meat on Fridays and Saturdays , shall pay a fine of ...
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